A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
xed
For a long time I always used the open command to open the Xcode project file contained inside React Native Projects. bramus in ~/repos/projects/react-native/example $ open ios/Example.xcodeproj It wasn’t until I recently started a new React Native project that react-native init afterwards informed me to use xed instead. The xed tool launches the Xcode application …
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New teaser/trailer for “Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker”, as showcased at Disney’s D23 Expo: Looking forward to this one! 🙂
node_modules folders
Speaking of node_modules folders, this tip by Roel Van Gils came to mind: Does your Mac becomes slow/unresponsive (fans kicking in etc.) when you `npm install` a huge project with a million tiny dependencies? I learned that adding an empty `.metadata_never_index` in /node_modules *beforehand* will prevent Spotlight from indexing all that crap. — Roel Van …
node_modules/vendor folders with npkill
When working in web, you can be left with several lost node_modules (JS) and vendor (PHP) folders spread across your filesystem, unnecessarily taking up space. To find these, I use the following command: # List all node_modules (from current directory down) and their size $ find . -name ‘node_modules’ -type d -prune -print | xargs …
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One of the features that shipped with Chrome 76 is “Paint Holding”. It’s a technique that removes the “flash of white” – e.g. the white page you briefly see while the browser is loading the next page – when navigation between two pages on the same origin, thus delivering a smoother experience to the user. …
Trailer for The Mandalorian, a Star Wars live-action series, due November 12 on Disney+: After the stories of Jango and Boba Fett, another warrior emerges in the Star Wars universe. “The Mandalorian” is set after the fall of the Empire and before the emergence of the First Order. We follow the travails of a lone …
UX studio, a Budapest based 30-person design company on how they plan their team retreats, how they keep the balance between fun activities and serious work during those retreats, etc: Every six months, our whole UX company travels to a remote location in Hungary’s countryside for two days to have fun and decide together about …
Cool interactive site showing your how to perform a Server Side Request Forgery hack, based on a true incident: The following interactive tutorial is a reconstruction of Capital One’s data breach incident that exposed the records of almost 106 million customers. Paige Thompson is accused of breaking into a Capital One server and gaining access …
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Harry Roberts has done an extensive write-up on Time To First Byte (TTFB), an often overlooked metric when it comes to measuring the performance of websites. While a good TTFB doesn’t necessarily mean you will have a fast website, a bad TTFB almost certainly guarantees a slow one. To see what happens during your TTFB, …
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Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash To connect to a MySQL Server that requires SSL from PHP with PDO, you can use this piece of code: try { $db = new PDO('mysql:host=DB_HOST;dbname=DB_NAME', $user, $pass, [ PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_KEY => 'path/to/client_private_key', PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CERT => 'path/to/client_cert', PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CA => 'path/to/server_ca_cert', ]); } catch (PDOException $e) { print "Error!: " . $e->getMessage() …